Question

What is the effect of the stranger's silence in "A Servant to Servants"?

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is : The effect is that it creates a mysterious, sinister tone, makes the woman feel frustrated, reveals information about the woman, makes the stranger look suspicious. This Frost poem is classified among the dramatic monologues. He also uses the listener's silence to give voice and power to the speaker who is someone with depression and loneliness.

Answer 2

The correct answer is that it causes the stranger to seem suspicious. In this piece from Frost the protagonist is describing her uncle who has gone mad. He lived in a family house, but within a cage, he lived like an animal. Apparently he has gone mad in his youth probably from love. The protagonist eventually moves out but her fear of going mad follows her on.